School districts like giving so many tests like MAP. I don't know why they then ignore the results. DS's teacher gives him work based on that. The test report shows what he has mastered and what he answered wrong, so she goes online and prints out appropriate level worksheets. She spends about 5 minutes with him one-on-one each day to teach the concepts, like how do you find an angle measurement on a protractor or how do you compare fractions. Then sets him loose to do the worksheets, sometimes with a para helping.
I think it boils down to teachers spending just a little bit of extra time to get themselves organized. DS's teacher probably took the assessment results and then immediately took an hour to print everything out all at once, and put it in a binder. She gave me a list of everything that she wants to cover with him, so it was planned ahead of time.
I can see how if you have 30 kids in your class this would be difficult. But most of those kids are in the middle and the normal curriculum works for them. The kids on the bottom (in our district at least) are pulled out by interventionists. So that leaves just a few kids at the top who need special lesson plans made up.
